Katja Becker

TL;DR: The potential of Piriformospora indica to induce resistance to fungal diseases and tolerance to salt stress in the monocotyledonous plant barley is reported on.

TL;DR: The presently available knowledge on sources and detoxification pathways of reactive oxygen species in malaria parasite-infected red cells, on clinical aspects of redox metabolism and redox-related mechanisms of drug action as well as future prospects for drug development is summarized.

TL;DR: In its physiological, NADPH-reduced form, the enzyme is strongly inhibited by organic gold compounds that are widely used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis; for auranofin, the K i was 4 nm when measured in the presence of 50 μmthioredoxin.

TL;DR: This review of the thioredoxin system will present and evaluate the preclinical and clinical results available today, and current trends in drug development are emphasized.

TL;DR: The absence of glutathione reductase in Drosophila melanogaster is demonstrated, a new type of thioredoxin reduct enzyme is identified, and evidence that a thiOREDoxin system supports GSSG reduction is provided, suggesting that antioxidant defense in Dosophila, and probably in related insects, differs fundamentally from that in other organisms.